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Dr. Guy Palmer holds the Jan & Jack Creighton Endowed Chair at Washington State University (WSU), where he is Regents Professor of Pathology & Infectious Diseases. The founding director of WSU’s Paul G. Allen School for Global Health, he currently is Senior Director of Global Health. He holds a federal appointment with the National Institutes of Health, where he serves on the Council of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.    

Dr. Palmer was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2006 and is a Medical Sciences Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, and a founding member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences, for which he served as president from 2012-13.   

Following his clinical training in veterinary medicine and residency in pathology, Dr. Palmer earned a Ph.D. in infectious diseases from WSU and completed a NIH fellowship in vaccine immunology. He led the NIH Training Program in Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases from 2003-2018 and currently directs the NIH D43 Medical Training Program in Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases in Kenya.   

He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Bern (Switzerland) where he completed his fellowship in the Institute of Pathology, and from Kansas State University, where he chaired the advisory board for the Biosecurity Institute. He has been recognized with the Poppensiek Professorship at Cornell, the IBM Professorship at Colby College, the Schalm Lecturership at the University of California, the Distinguished Scientist Lectureship at NIH, the Science in Medicine Lectureship at the University of Washington, and the Merck Award for Creativity.  

Dr. Palmer also holds appointments at the University of Nairobi, the Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology, the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, and with the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.